Dr. Tara Narula

And that was something that I learned in medical school when I had my own health scare.

I lost vision and part of my eye, and I

was given the serenity prayer by my mom, which says, you know, accepting the things we can't change.

And that's key.

So I think really accepting your diagnosis, but then recognizing that time and putting one foot in front of the other and sort of changing your view of where you're going can really be helpful.

And so for a lot of people not looking so far ahead in the future, and I will tell my patients, let's just focus on today and then tomorrow and the next day, and pretty soon you're gonna realize, you know, six months have passed.

Because for a lot of people, the fear is there,

What if this happens again?

Or will I be able to do all the things I want to do?

So it's really about that focus on the present moment and living in the present and not worrying so much about the future and changing.

And that's where the step two tool in our book about flexible thinking, really shifting your vision of where your life might be heading.

And that's okay.

So you might be going, thought you were going down this way, but actually you're going to be going down another road and that road is going to be just as good.

Life is this beautiful organic thing.

The quote I use in the book about Michelangelo sort of carving the marble and setting the angel free, that's my visualization for resilience.

It's that we are all this angel inside of marble.

We're going to get chiseled a little bit by the things that happen to us in life.

But at the end, this beautiful angel sort of emerges.

So the chiseling and the events that happen to us, they may be difficult, but they're creating this beautiful new version of us.

I just had this question today from a young woman who wanted to know, should I be focusing on cardio or weights?